Uni-Trade Stadium may once again hold professional baseball games in the near future. The Laredo City Council will discuss Monday allowing the city manager to enter negotiations to bring Rojos del Aguila deUni-Trade Stadium may once again hold professional baseball games in the near future. The Laredo City Council will discuss Monday allowing the city manager to enter negotiations to bring Rojos del Aguila de Veracruz to Laredo. A source told LMT Veracruz wishes to split its games in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo and rebrand as the Tecolotes.

Photo: Francisco Vera / Laredo Morning Times

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Danny’s Restaurant owner Danny Lopez is leading the local charge toward bringing the Tecolotes back to Laredo.

Photo: Francisco Vera / Laredo Morning Times

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Mayor Pete Saenz and the Laredo City Council unanimously passed a request to allow the city manager to enter into negotiations toward bringing the Tecolotes back to Laredo next season.

Photo: Danny Zaragoza / Laredo Morning Times

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Click through the gallery to see photos of the Laredo Lemurs through the years.

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The Laredo Lemurs line up for their first-ever game in 2012.

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Mark Schuster, CEO of the Laredo Lemurs, on the right, is seen in this archive image, alongside team manager Pete Incaviglia, and team-naming winner Meagan Cantu.

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Laredo Lemurs' designated hitter John Allen (30) rounds first base after getting a hit in the second inning of Friday, Aug. 10, 2012 game against the AirHogs at Uni-Trade Stadium.

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Laredo Lemurs designated hitter John Allen fouls the ball in the first inning of a game at Uni-Trade Stadium.

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The Laredo Lemur’s right fielder Ernie Banks Jr. (29) hits a double to left field to bring in a run in the first inning of a game against the El Paso Diablos at Uni-Trade Stadium.

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Laredo Lemurs’ Denis Phipps went 2-for-4 in a 6-1 loss against the Amarillo ThunderHeads.

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Laredo Lemur's Javier Brito (40) hugs teammate Jimmy Mojica (7) after Brito hit a homerun in the 8th inning, Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012, at Uni-Trade Stadium. Mojica had just made a home run minutes before. (Danny

Brian Peterson went 2-for-4 in his final game for the Laredo Lemurs to finish his professional career with 1,024 hits.

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Sean Tracey (43) talks to one of the coaches, during the 2013 season.

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The Laredo Lemurs beat the Sioux City Explorers 12-5 in 2014 to claim their first American Association championship.

Photo: Victor Strife /Laredo Morning Times File

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Lemurs outfielder Dennis Phipps hit an American Association high 24 home runs in 2016.

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Pitcher Henry Garcia

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Shortstop Jimmy Mojica

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Third baseman Juan Silverio was a key contributor on Laredo’s 2015 championship team.

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Lemurs infielder Abel Nieves

A major hurdle in the return of the Tecolotes professional baseball team to both of the sister cities has been cleared.

The Liga Mexicana de Béisbol approved the move of the Rojos del Aguila de Veracruz franchise to both Laredo and Nuevo Laredo in its Assembly of Presidents meeting on Wednesday.

Danny Lopez, the general manager of the Danny's Restaurant chain, is serving as an operational partner toward getting baseball back in Laredo. He confirmed to LMT on Wednesday that Veracruz's move is official.

There is one ongoing hang up, however. Lopez and the city still need to negotiate terms for use of Uni-Trade Stadium. Lopez said at a city council meeting Sept. 18 that he planned on "mirroring what the Laredo Lemurs had." He also confirmed that day the expectation was that Veracruz would still play next year in Nuevo Laredo only if an agreement with Laredo wasn't reached.

Veracruz was 48-57 this year in the LMB South division in 2017. They made the postseason in the 16-team league, but of the nine teams that qualified, they were one of two that had a play-in game to get in. Veracruz lost 9-4 to Bravos de León.

The Lemurs spent five years in Laredo in the American Association before canceling this season with only a week prior to the start of training camp. They won the AA championship in 2015 and made the 12-team league's four-team playoffs on three occasions. In the two years they missed the postseason, they finished a half-game shy in 2016 — the first club with 57 or more wins to not qualify — and 1 1/2 games back in 2013.

The Tecolotes de Nuevo Laredo were founded in 1940 and later took up the named Tecolotes de los dos Laredos after splitting their games in each city. They won Mexican League championships in five different years, the last being 1989.

Recently, Nuevo Laredo fielded a team known by the shorthand of Tecos in 2016 that competed in the six-team Liga del Norte de Coahuila. They lost in the semifinals of their postseason to Carboneros de Nava.

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